You just gottafire up the Amiga from time to time, and type in:"................................................................................................................" just to hear it say "and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on"

GUI usage: In pull-down menus and buttons, the "..." in the end of the command name in menus and buttons often means that the menu/button will open a dialog box (the idea: the action is not immediate and the program needs to know more). This is the case in Windows and MacOS, also most of the UNIX software these days.

It was about half past 12, when I heard three little clicks in the earphones. Several times they sounded, but I hardly dared believe. The electric waves that were being sent out from Poldhu had traversed the Atlantic, serenely ignoring the curvature of the Earth, which so many doubters had told me would be a fatal obstacle.

May I also note (although I hesitate as this is already a full node) that Nietzsche used this "..." to finish off some statements in his books, as a mark to point out that this train of thought had no real ending, or to state that there was no more he could say about it. He used in a rather strange fashion though, to end a statement on a ambiguous note.

I just wanted to point out that the use of "..." is not a new invention but was used in the 1800's!